Patents by Inventor Steven W. Bennett

Steven W. Bennett has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9931079
    Abstract: A clamp for securing a terminal end of a wire to a surface electrode formed on a cylindrical tube includes a first semicylindrical element. A second semicylindrical element is configured to be attached to the first semicylindrical element to form a tubular clamp structure that is adapted to be clamped around the cylindrical tube. The tubular clamp structure includes an interior surface configured to securely hold a terminal end of a wire against a surface electrode formed on the cylindrical tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenjeng Li, Steven W. Bennett, David John Little, II, Maria Charles Vijay Stanislaus, David C. Hacker
  • Publication number: 20130172714
    Abstract: A clamp for securing a terminal end of a wire to a surface electrode formed on a cylindrical tube includes a first semicylindrical element. A second semicylindrical element is configured to be attached to the first semicylindrical element to form a tubular clamp structure that is adapted to be clamped around the cylindrical tube. The tubular clamp structure includes an interior surface configured to securely hold a terminal end of a wire against a surface electrode formed on the cylindrical tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenjeng Li, Steven W. Bennett, David John Little, II, Maria Charles Vijay Stanislaus, David C. Hacker
  • Patent number: 6260157
    Abstract: A processing device includes a ROM having program instructions and at leas one jump instruction stored therein, a patch program for patching the program instructions in the ROM, a RAM capable of storing the patch program and a patch vector table that indicates the location of the patch program. A processor executes the program instructions in the program ROM and uses the patch vector table to execute the patch program when one of the jump instructions is reached. The patch program may be stored in the RAM and the patch vector table may point to the address in the RAM at which the patch program is stored so that the processor jumps directly to the RAM to execute the patch program when it reaches the one of the jump instructions. Likewise, a patch engine may be used to locate a specified patch program, load the specified patch program into the RAM and execute the specified patch program when the processor reaches the one of the jump instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventors: Kurt Schurecht, Steven W. Bennett, James L. Porter